Life skills and special education
Job Skills for Special Education
Job Applications & Interview Practice
- Grades
- Grades 8–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 32
- Answer keys
- Included
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Get students with disabilities ready for their first job! This leveled job skills unit for special education and transition classes covers the whole process: workplace vocabulary, matching interests to types of jobs, reading 8 realistic job ads, filling out a real-looking job application with a fictional practice persona, dressing for an interview, answering interview questions with sentence starters, and the habits that keep a job: being on time, calling in sick or late and behaving professionally.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 10-session pacing, materials and differentiation (Level 1, 2 and 3)
- How to teach and track it: level guide, role-play ideas, prompt codes and respectful interview coaching tips
- Workplace vocabulary: 16 words with picture supports + leveled vocabulary practice
- Types of Jobs: 12 job families with example jobs and duties
- My Job Interest Survey that links each interest to job types
- 8 drawn help-wanted ads with pay, hours, duties, requirements and abbreviations
- Reading Job Ads at three levels: picture-supported choices, find the facts + job match, and weekly pay math + job match
- Practice Info Card for a fictional job seeker, so students never use their own personal data
- Mini application (Level 1, with letter boxes) and a realistic 2-page job application
- Dressing for an Interview: do/don't lists and a picture dress check
- Interview questions with sentence starters and a strength word bank
- 16 interview practice cards with starters
- Mock interview checklist (peer or teacher)
- Workplace behavior sort: mat + 16 picture cards
- Being on Time: early vs. late, working backward, and a bus timetable
- Calling in sick or late: scripts and role-play scenarios
- Job Skills Check quiz (10 questions)
- IEP transition data sheet with 10 job-skill targets
- Complete answer keys, including every correct application entry
How to use it
Use it in life skills, special education, transition, vocational and CTE classes, or with job coaches. Teach one skill per session and assign each student the page at their level. The interview cards, behavior sort and call-in scripts work well for small groups and role-play, and the data sheet makes IEP progress monitoring easy.
Skills practiced
Job applicationsreading job adsinterests and job matchinginterview skillsworkplace behaviorpunctuality and time mathcalling inworkplace vocabulary
